The application of star-products to noncommutative geometry and gauge theory

Abstract

We develop a formalism to realize algebras defined by relations on function spaces. For this porpose we construct the Weyl-ordered star-product and present a method how to calculate star-products with the help of commuting vector fields. Concepts developed in noncommutative differential geometry will be applied to this type of algebras and we construct actions for noncommutative field theories. Derivations of star-products makes it further possible to extend noncommutative gauge theory in the Seiberg-Witten formalism with covariant derivatives. In the commutative limit these theories are becoming gauge theories on curved backgrounds. We study observables of noncommutative gauge theories and extend the concept of so called open Wilson lines to general noncommutative gauge theories.